About Jack Hughes

An experienced software engineer with many years experience writing products for Microsooft Windows based operating systems as well as 12+ years experience hosting websites on Linux and Windows including e-commerce and CMS systems. He is quite fanatical about quality software and has been writing unit tests since 1998 and has now automated deployment of all websites and backend systems.

English is a tricky language isn’t it? You started the first paragraph mentioning that “TWiki was being forked”. As a side-issue to the first paragraph you mentioned that the project creator wanted to take the project down the commercial open source route.

Then you started a new paragraph that stated that the TWiki community were unhappy about “this”. Any normal person would assume that “this” refers to the dominant issue in the first paragraph, i.e. the forking. But I know that you really meant that the TWiki community are unhappy about the project going down the commercial open source route.

As a blogger you have to assume people cannot read your mind and you have to explicitly state your assumptions, particularly when you offer people multiple choices when talking about “this” or “that” or “it”.

@Peter – gosh, it’s like being back in school. You are right though, the post is far from being a classic. But, to edit it at this late stage, would be quite wrong I think. I’ll try to do better next time. 😉

Jack Hughes AKA The Tech Teapot is a consultant for OPENXTRA Ltd., where he provides consulting, programming and training.more...